Schopenhauer

Acknowledgments.

Abbreviations.

Chapter One: The Philosophy of a Nonconformist (1788-1860).

I. The Unsettled Years: 1788-1831.

II. The Stable Years: 1833-1860.

Part I: Schopenhauerâs Theoretical Philosophy.

Chapter Two: Historical Background.

I. Mind-Dependent Qualities versus Mind-Independent Qualities.

II. Space and Time.

Chapter Three: The Principle of Sufficient Reason.

I. The Root of All Explanation.

II. The Four Basic Forms of Explanation.

Chapter Four: Schopenhauerâs Idealism and his Criticism of Kant.

I. The Rejection of a Mind-Independent Reality.

II. Kantâs Theory of Perception.

III. Kantâs Use of the Term âObjectâ.

IV. The Logic of Manifestation.

Chapter Five: The World in Itself as a Meaningless and Almighty Will.

I. Universal Subjectivity.

II. The World as Will.

III. The Two-Tiered Objectification of the Will: Platonic Ideas and Spatio-Temporal Individuals.

Chapter Six: Critical Interpretations of the World as Will.

I. Scientific Knowledge, Philosophical Knowledge, and Mystical Knowledge.

II. Regular Time versus the Eternal Present.

Part II: Schopenhauerâs Practical Philosophy.

Chapter Seven: Endless Suffering in the Daily World.

I. A Universal Will Without Purpose.

II. The Purposelessness of Schopenhauerâs Thing-in-Itself.

III. Life as Embittering: Schopenhauer and Buddhism.

Chapter Eight: Tranquility I: Sublimity, Genius, and Aesthetic Experience.

I. Platonic Ideas and Aesthetic Experience.

II. Artistic Genius and the Communication Theory of Art.

III. The Hierarchy of the Visual and Verbal Arts.

IV. Tragedy and Sublimity.

V. Music and Metaphysical Experience.

Chapter Nine: Tranquility II: Christlike Virtue and Moral Awareness.

I. Empathy as the Foundation of Moral Awareness.

II. Intelligible, Empirical, and Acquired Character.

III. Humanityâs Sublime Anguish.

Chapter Ten: Tranquility III: Asceticism, Mysticism, and Buddhism.

I. The Possibility of the Denial-of-the-Will.

II. Christian Quietism, Yogic Ecstasy, and Buddhist Enlightenment.

III. Asceticism and Spiritual Purification.

Part III: Schopenhauer in Perspective.

Chapter Eleven: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Eternal Life.

I. The Question of Lifeâs Value.

II. Funereal Imagery and Nietzscheâs Theory of Tragedy.

III. Schopenhauerâs Moral Awareness and Eternal Recurrence.

IV. The Eternalistic Illusion of Supreme Health.

V. Nietzscheâs Madness and Eternalistic Consciousness.

Chapter Twelve: Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Alienated Labor.

I. The Worldâs Essence: Rational or Irrational?.

II. Labor, Imprisonment, and Christianity.

III. The World as Will and Representation and âSelf-Consciousnessâ in Hegelâs.

Phenomenology.

Chapter Thirteen: Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, and the Unspeakable.

I. The Quest for Absolute Value.

II. What the Philosophical Investigations Cannot Say.

Conclusion: Idealism and the Will to Peace.

I. The Plausibility of Schopenhauerâs Idealism.

II. The Explanatory Weakness of a Blind and Senseless Will.

III. The Prospect of Peace.

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